Welcome to the NBU virtual Herbarium Catalogue

University of North Bengal Herbarium (NBU) stores around 12000 herbarium specimens, including Angiosperm, Gymnosperm and Pteridophytes. The herbarium is initially established in 1991 by the Department of Botany, University of North Bengal. Recently in April, 2019 the Herbarium is upgraded along with modern facilities and shifted to a new separate building for easy access of in-house and global users. The acronym of this herbaria is NBU and the herbarium specimens are arranged as per APG IV. The Herbarium also contains a well oriented seed and fruit collections brought from various wilderness of India by different researchers, an organized pollen bank in the form of permanent slides of various angiosperms collected from different part of Himalaya, sub-Himalaya and plains of various agro-climatic zones of India.